You just posited what looks to me like a universal claim: “Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.” (Your quotes, by the way, probably from the Bible. Be specific: correct my guess if it’s wrong. People appreciate transparency.)
You just posited what looks to me like a universal claim: “Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.” (Your quotes, by the way, probably from the Bible. Be specific: correct my guess if it’s wrong. People appreciate transparency.)
Then, you drastically limited that floating claim to an explicitly personal claim: “To me, “the world” = the social system, that is the governmental-political-financial complex.” I’m grateful for the clarification of what you meant, which was not evident initially.
A limited, personal claim might be shared by one other human being, or a million. It may or may not come from the Bible. But it is not universal, in any case.
Matt has a really well-though-out position, backed by evidence of his own claims and a constructed argument I can engage with, and that is why I respect him.
You just posited what looks to me like a universal claim: “Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.” (Your quotes, by the way, probably from the Bible. Be specific: correct my guess if it’s wrong. People appreciate transparency.)
Then, you drastically limited that floating claim to an explicitly personal claim: “To me, “the world” = the social system, that is the governmental-political-financial complex.” I’m grateful for the clarification of what you meant, which was not evident initially.
A limited, personal claim might be shared by one other human being, or a million. It may or may not come from the Bible. But it is not universal, in any case.
Matt has a really well-though-out position, backed by evidence of his own claims and a constructed argument I can engage with, and that is why I respect him.